re: Evangelicals in Republican Party are feeling left out, see no standard-bearer

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Uhm, no. I am a small government conservative. The fact that I take issue with moral or social issues does not mean I advocate larger government. It means I advocate government that promotes moral behavior, a key facet of good governance. That which contributes to the common good of society. You can disagree with how I define morality, but you cannot reframe the argument to say that I am in favor of larger government.

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This. What the millennials don't understand is that they are viewing things from just their history. Their time on earth. They are a very small part of the voters.

Data from the General Social Surveys (GSS), which have been conducted regularly since 1972, confirm that young adults are not just more unaffiliated than their elders today but are also more unaffiliated than young people have been in recent decades. In GSS surveys conducted since 2000, nearly one-quarter of people ages 18-29 have described their religion as “none.” By comparison, only about half as many young adults were unaffiliated in the 1970s and 1980s.

This isn't hard to grasp.